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Web Design for FreeLeadsandFreeTraffic

By Zo Nicholas

Web Design for FreeLeadsandFreeTraffic FreeLeadsandFreeTraffic.com is still very much a work in progress. A brand new theme, Semiomntics XO, new design and a new cleaner look. Still some bits to tidy up, a bit more work on the stylesheet to get the result I am after. All this of course takes time. So, so far.. Old Web Design on FreeLeadsandFreeTraffic FreeLeadsandFreeTraffic.com...
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Web Design

By Zo Nicholas

Web Design When considering a new web design for any site one must take into  a few important factors.  First and foremost it must be customer-friendly, appealing to the eye, content clearly visible and easily navigated. Web Design for Free Leads and Free Traffic FreeLeadsandFreeTraffic is rather an old blog that has been neglected but not forgotten.  The...
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Web Design images

By Zo Nicholas

Web Design images 2009 by Zo nicholas
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Web Design fonts

By Zo Nicholas

Web Design fonts Creating a collection of web design fonts in the gallery for further use on different sites. Font Galleries Fonts - fonts  used on web design sandbox Fonts 2 - mixed collection of fonts Fonts 3 -  coming soon
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Web Design font

By Zo Nicholas

Web Design font Part of the ‘look’ of any website is the fontface that is used, for the title and the body or contents. Visitors do remember the look, the colour and the feel of a site.  For this site, ‘Web Design’, I have already settled on a title font, however for the h1,h2,h3 that is...
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Implementing your Brand

By Yorgo Nestoridis

By Yorgo Nestoridis Contents [ hide ] 1 Branding by Ycademy 1.1 Branding your Website 1.2 Branding your Social Networks 1.3 Branding your Media Site Branding by Ycademy It has been a long way to brand yourself, your business or your online presence. Now it’s time to implement your brand. next week’s Ycademy Seminar will, amongst others, focus on the...
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Add a border to a photo or image

By Zo Nicholas

Add a border to a photo or image Sometimes a plain photo or image is rather boring and makes no impact at all. Just by adding a border to a photo or image gives it a complete lift and adds a new dimension. Add a border using Gimp Here are some examples of borders using a free photo/image...
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Transparent Watermarks and Fonts

By Yorgo Nestoridis

By Yorgo Nestoridis Contents [ hide ] 1 Transparent Watermarks and Fonts 1.1 Transparent Watermark and Font Gallery Transparent Watermarks and Fonts An exercise with photo shop to create some photographic art works and protect them with an unusual watermark using transparent glass fonts. The idea is to get off the usual watermarks which mess up the beauty...
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Create your own Web Effects

By Zo Nicholas

Create your own Web Effects With a simple image/photo editor you can create your own web effects. These editors often come as software with your digital camera, or you can choose from the many that are freely available online.  Simple Web Effects For the  purpose of this exercise in creating a simple web effect I am using...
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Transparent Fonts for Photo Site

By Yorgo Nestoridis

By Yorgo Nestoridis Contents [ hide ] 1 Transparent Fonts for Photo Site 1.1 Transparent and Embossed Font Transparent Fonts for Photo Site My exercise to create a photo website lead to find a way to create transparent fonts. The photo blog is a project based on light and transparency. Transparent fonts and transparent glass like backgrounds are...
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Web Design Workshop by Ycademy

By Yorgo Nestoridis

By Yorgo NestoridisWeb Design Workshop by Ycademy The Web Design Workshop by Ycademy helps participants to customize their web sites and to express them-selves with code poetry. CSS style-sheet editing and basic image editing are this week’s topic. Here below is the status of some of the test sites: Web Design by Ute Schaedler Nice harmonious color scheme...
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Header Graphics 2

By Zo Nicholas

Header Graphics 2 Having created quite a plain header graphic for this blog I decided to try and create different versions of the same using a free image and photo editing software.  Header Graphics for Web Design There are many free image editors on the net. The two I like to work with are Gimp and Paint.Net....
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Web Design Workshop 16 – Scroll over Background

By Yorgo Nestoridis

By Yorgo Nestoridis Contents [ hide ] 1 How to let your Content Scroll over the Background 1.1 Background CSS 1.2 CSS Background Properties 1.3 Background Attachment 1.4 CSS Fixed Background Example with Semiomantics XO 1.5 Web Design Workshop by Ycademy How to let your Content Scroll over the Background Scr5olling over a background image may save resources, namely if you use...
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Header Graphics

By Zo Nicholas

Header Graphics A header graphics can be as simple or complex as you desire them to be. They are the first thing a reader sees when opening your site. A header needs to be striking and memorable and yet not distracting. Web Design Header Graphic For this site I have continued the theme as used in my...
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Small Business Ideas Branding 2

By Zo Nicholas

Small Business Ideas Branding 2 Having written a post about branding Small Business Ideas I noticed that when the post was published the blockquote was hugging the visual presentation as you see from the image below.   Blockquote , pullquote As you can see from the above blockquote that is used to illustrate the codes used, it totally...
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Miss Garden Route 2009

By Bianca Gubalke

Miss Garden Route 2009 And the “Miss Garden Route 2009″ Winner is. . .? We are still waiting for Lalakoi’s feedback as to the exciting results… seems the jury had a hard time with the choice??? Meanwhile. . . I did my own guess with this charming young lady with the irresistible smile :) Miss Garden Route 2009 As...
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Noordhoek Art

By Bianca Gubalke

Noordhoek Art Passion and determination lead beyond limitations… Noordhoek Beach Grunge Art Here I used our new Web Design Tools including some Grunge Fonts and Grunge Brushes – Fun!
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Miss Garden Route 2009 Images

By Bianca Gubalke

Miss Garden Route 2009 Images Who will be the face of  “Miss Garden Route 2009″ ? By now the decision must have been made. . . and soon our friend Lalakoi will report en direct from Mosselbay! Miss Garden Route 2009 Finalists Above is just one of the radiant Miss Garden Route Finalists and with that twinkle in...
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Miss Garden Route 2009

By Bianca Gubalke

Miss Garden Route 2009 “Miss Garden Route 2009″ is in the making. . . a difficult choice! Miss Garden Route 2009 Who can resist this beautiful smile? Miss Garden Route – Nostalgic Miss Garden Route 2009 – Romantic Miss Garden Route 2009 – On Top of the World! Miss Gardenroute 2009 – WHO ELSE? Champagne! …
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Miss Garden Route 2009

By Bianca Gubalke

Miss Garden Route 2009 The “Miss Gardenroute 2009″ Pageants are heating up as the highlight of tonight’s big event at the Gardenroute Casino in Mosselbay draws closer: WHO will become “Miss Garden Route 2009″ ? Miss Garden Route 2009 Will SHE be the next “Miss Gardenroute” 2009? Lalakoi is getting excited. . .
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